Update from Bath
Posted on November 23rd, 2011 at 11:29 PM / 1 comment »
We’re over half way through the mission week here in Bath and so I thought I’d give a short update for those who have been praying.
It’s been a very encouraging week so far. Each morning the chaplaincy has been packed with CU members meeting to pray for the day and for their friends. This really is the powerhouse of the mission. I’ve never seen a fruitful mission without a well attended prayer meeting.
Lunch bars and evening events have been packed out. We had people crammed into every square inch of the room on Monday for the pudding party. More chairs were needed for today as lunch time talk and every table in the church was commandeered for the quiz as more than expected turned up.
Students have been bold and courageous in their evangelism – many of them inviting friends and hall mates for dinner and then getting a CU guest to share the gospel and answer questions.
We have had a great team of CU guests – 16 in all – from different parts of the UK and the world (Canada and Bulgaria). The Bulgarians were excited to meet a whole group of students from their own country and have organised to meet up for meals so they can talk more about Jesus.
Best of all, we have seen students professing faith each day. Others have grown in there interest and have signed up for the follow up while others have come back day after day to find out more. One girl that we had specifically prayed for came back tonight. Another guy I chatted to last night came back again this evening and was very close to trusting Jesus. Another guy came back even though his Christian friends couldn’t come because he had been so impressed by what he had heard.
Tomorrow we have a lunch time talk on the subject of hell and on Friday on the cross. Tomorrow night is the last main evening event, a curry night in town. So far we have 250 down to come and more may well turn up – a fantastic opportunity. Apparently there are more than they can get into one room so the talk will be relayed with a video link to the other rooms (bit like a Billy Graham mission!).
Thanks so much for your prayers. Hope you are encouraged at being a part of what the Lord is doing here. I know I am. Keep praying for an even more fruitful last two days.
One comment for “Update from Bath”
Christine commented on November 24th, 2011 at 12:53 AM:
Thanks for updating us. Made me cry with joy.
Without the update I would have struggled to pray the last two days – rather pathetic – but there it is -I am only faithful in daily prayer for about 5 days without feedback and encouragement to go on – always harder without others praying with you.
The report spurs me on to finish well.
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